Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ice T

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

Gary Hart

Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

Detroit - and I'm not blowing smoke at anybody - is probably the greatest fan sports town in the country. They'll support anything.

William E. Conway, Jr.

There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.

Walter Brennan

I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?

Eartha Kitt

You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

Don Aaron

The police department's investigation is very much continuing. At this point in the investigation, six female students at Paragon Mills have reported inappropriate contact by the teacher. The police department takes accusations such as this very seriously. In any case such as this we'd ask that anybody in the community who has information about this to contact the police department.

Valerie Bertinelli

Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.

Judith Butler

I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each other; they didn't trust anybody outside. You'd bring someone home, and the first question was, 'Are they Jewish, are they not Jewish?'

Yani Tseng

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

Tina Fey

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Thomas Friedman

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

Ian Watson

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Gabriel Mann

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

Glenn Tipton

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Will Rothhaar

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

Paul Fleischman

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

Bob Hartley

We have a great group of players, but this is embarrassing. There's no other way to explain the way we've played. It's embarrassing.

Michael Defensor

We have to look at all the options and then explain to the public why we are doing this and why we are not doing this.

Jonathan Todd

Microsoft will have the opportunity to explain how this technical support is relevant to the March 2004 decision.

Chris Hoffman

We need to properly explain to people they're only going to see a 7-mil increase,

Rocky Steagall

We judge off those criteria. It's not like we sit there with an open mind. We use those tools to judge so we can explain why one rider was better than the other.

Richard Aboulafia

You can explain this. But people see what they want to see.

Andy Reid

You just have a feel. I just don't know how to explain it.

Oscar Hammerstein

Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try

Ian Mckellen

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

Gene Ween

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!

William Shatner

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

Emilia Fox

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

David Stern

All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.

David Horsey

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.

Christopher Guest

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Clint Eastwood

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Giles Foden

At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn't good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate.

Eve Ensler

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

Emmett Brown

The all-tackle world record will not be overturned. In many ways, it's further validated.

Naveen Andrews

We know that there's going to be some new people joining and that's great because you do wonder how much further they can take it before running out of ideas, ... How can it possibly sustain itself?

Martin Schulz

We will see a further improvement in the small- and mid-sized companies.

Ernie Accorsi

Waiting for 25 can be frustrating at times, but you are there for the right reason. You just hope you are even further down every year.

Shahab Jalinoos

We have a long way to go in terms of pricing in further Japanese rate hikes. That's the point, which we think the yen will really start to rally.

Marla Shavin

White is going to be huge for spring. The further we get into warmer weather, we will see it more and more.

Mark Wilson

We can't get down to much further so this is a big game for us. Plus, we'd like to keep the momentum going after last week's win.

Giancarlo Esposito

Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana and mediation practice.

Colin Morgan

Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on.

Dan Hendricks

The overall plan has always been to get there. Luckily, we've been improving and he's doing well. Once we get through Saturday and everything goes well, we'll start planning on from there.

David Friedman

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Victoria Osteen

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

Nayvadius Cash

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

Ray Charles

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

Elton Brand

That would mean a lot. All the hoopla about who's better goes out the window. It's right there on the court.

Rosamund Pike

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Sheryl Kingstone

The $500,000 offer is a very tactical marketing move.

Rodney Roberts

We have all the respect for Carroll and they will be back. Mark it down. They're playoff-tough.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, ... We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas. We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.

Seth Shostak

Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.

Michael Budman

White is very popular in Italy, and the U.S. wore it in '56.

James Shuler

I thought I was going to pop it. No one was going to take that away from me.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Baruch Spinoza

Popular religion may be summed up as a respect for Ecclesiastes

Reggie Lewis

We were shocked when we had to go back out there on the onside kick.

Joe Hampton

I'm shocked by the turnout. We're very pleased.

Doug Eddings

Yes. That's why I was pretty shocked at what took place.

Bobby Bowden

I was shocked that he wasn't first team All-ACC. It made so sense.

Jeff Justice

I would be shocked if we had a verdict before the first of April.

Janet Jacobs

When he told us, I got up from the table, shocked and surprised,

Dan Brown

I have been shocked at their reaction. Furthermore I do not really understand it.

Richard Shoemaker

I'd be shocked if it was done by this weekend.

William Arbaugh

would be shocked if they solved the problem.

Chet Faker

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.

David Zayas

There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.

Neneh Cherry

To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.

Bill Bryson

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

Bill Budge

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

Robert Maddox

That would be kind of an insensitive thing to do in a situation like that.

LeBron James

That was very strange. We were way up, so I could sit over there.

Scott Turow

I hate second-guessing other lawyers because I know that I've tried and lost cases, and somebody could sit there and say, 'Should have done it this way,' and they'd have been right.

Ricky Gervais

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'